IBM Bob: The AI Agent That Wants to Control Your Entire Software Development Process

IBM deployed Bob to 80,000 employees and reports a 45% productivity improvement. But what does it really mean for a single AI system to control planning, coding, testing, and deployment?

In this episode, we examine three key issues that no one is discussing: why the real differentiator is not the AI model but the orchestration layer, why you should question IBM’s self-reported numbers, and how Bob’s depth of integration creates a dependency that could be very difficult to break in the future.

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